at least now they'll get a three minute warning of the quakes.
Of course the devastation of San Francisco gets the lions share of the attention, but this was a regional disaster; it’s just that the outlying areas were largely rural. Auburn is at 1300 feet in the Sierra Foothills 120 miles from the city.. Press reports at the time indicate people could see the glow in the West from SF burning, despite the fact that coast range is between the two places. The Stanford is 40 miles from SF and got major damages. Another 10 miles away, fatalities and major damage to buildings in Santa Clara and San Jose.
